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Helping Medical Students Communicate with a Grieving Patient/Family

A doctor recently asked me about an occurrence in his practice and I realized that most doctors receive no training on how grief can interfere with the doctor/patient relationship. Doctors need to understand how grief impacts on communication and...

Identify Methods of Promoting Healthy Living and Disease Prevention

" Researchers surveyed 183 University of Michigan Health System doctors: 102 residents and fellows and 81 attending physicians. Most said they weren't confident they could persuade patients to change their lifestyle habits. Only about one in 10 trainees and 17.3%...

Identify Opportunities for Advocating for Individual Patients

Take a moment to reflect on the cartoon on this page. Words used to describe patients can tell you a lot about how patients are viewed in your clinic/hospital. As you compare the following words used to describe patients, consider...

Advocate Role Introduction

In The CanMEDS 2005 Physician Competency Framework developed by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Health Advocacy is described as: "Definition As Health Advocates, physicians responsibly use their expertise and influence to advance the health and well-being of individual...

Vaccinate Your Children

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Working with the "Difficult" Student: Part 1

Step 1- Define Difficult For the purposes of the next two blog posts, we are going to look at two different definitions of difficult: 1. Students who are experiencing academic difficulty 2. Students who you are uncomfortable working with. There...

Surgical Information Site

I recently found a new site called Pre-OP, which describes itself as: "This is an information resource designed to help you understand the nature of a medical condition and the surgical procedure most commonly used to treat it. Our hope...

A cautionary tale of 2 e-patients

Warning this video has images that may disturb non-medical people...

Best Practices in Simulation Planning

At the recent International Conference on Residency Education, several speakers emphasized the importance of planning when using expensive simulation labs. Residents who train exclusively on high fidelity simulators frequently complain about the complexity and confusion of learning in this manner.

Making the IMPLICIT (Unconscious) EXPLICIT (Conscious)

I have been thinking about how we help students become aware of the thinking processes (pattern making, creative analysis) that we use everyday to solve problems. These processes have become habits that we rarely think about but students who see us travel from A-H see something magical or worse think we are taking shortcuts because we don't show them the underlying knowledge we use.

Building a Collaborative Environment

One of the most frequent issues raised by instructors who are trying to move from a teacher-centred to a team-centred classroom is “How do I get students to collaborate effectively?”

Twitter in HealthCare

Several articles have recently come to my attention that I wanted to share with you about how Twitter is being used by physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers.

Twitter Search in Plain English

CommonCraft has a new video about using the twitter search tool....

The role of conversation

In the recent article, The role of conversation in health care interventions: enabling sensemaking and learning the authors summary states:

Dr. Premkumar Wins Prestigious Award

Dr. Kalyani Premkumar has been selected as one of the recipients to receive the 2009 CAME/ACÉM Certificate of Merit Award.